China to develop tech to deal with misbehaving apps, plug personal information leaks

Icons for ByteDance Ltd’s Xigua Video app, top left, and the Kuaishou Technology app, top second left, on a smartphone. China’s regulators have in recent months forged ahead with a crackdown on the country’s technology giants, criticising and punishing them on areas ranging from anti-competitive behaviour to violations of consumer rights. — Bloomberg

BEIJING: China will improve detection technologies to find information protection “loopholes” as more effort is being made this year to regulate the country’s huge mobile app market, the information technology minister said.

“Those apps that refuse to accept rectification must be resolutely removed,” said Xiao Yaqing, minister of industry and information technology, at a briefing in Beijing on Monday.